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  • So usually, there’s a transformer that cuts mains AC at 110ish volts down to 16ish volts. Then this voltage is used to power things like dumb doorbells and alarm panels.

    This is mine that powers my doorbell.

    You might have an alarm panel, and I think that because the device you have in the picture looks like an old motion detector, or some model I haven’t seen.

    You could have a transformer next to your breaker panel like this If you do, and a white/red/grey/beige square enclosure nearby

    You can safely cut or unscrew the wires off the exposed side of the transformer. If you want to be super safe you can turn off that breaker before you do it, but you really just don’t want to bridge the contacts that the wires on the transformer are connected to.

















  • That simply isn’t true. All it takes is one good cop to nullify the statement.

    So ACAB is true, when you look at the philosophy of it and you separate the identity of the individuals from the job they do.

    An individual can commit good acts, that’s not in dispute. An individual police officer can be fair to people and do a good job. That doesn’t make them a good cop, because of the things they aid and abbett through inaction. Holding bad actors accountable is required for justice, and those acts are impossible to perform or are penalized within the structure of policing. An individual officer can’t decline mandatory training that supports a militarization mindset. An individual officer is punished by leadership and the organization if they do try to create internal accountability.

    So the structure of it means the only way to be good, is to decline to aid and abbett, which means stop being a cop. If the only way to be good is to not be a cop, that means all cops are bad.

    For other absolutes I agree with you, just not this specific one I think it’s a bad example.